Over the next four decades, they opened a lighting factory and took over several lighting companies, expanding and working with a number of designers. In 1957 the company hired Jo Hammerborg as head designer. Hammerborg had studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and had worked for Georg Jensen for eight years before accepting the position.
Under the design leadership of Hammerborg, Fog & Mørup enjoyed their greatest success, becoming one of the world's leading lighting companies during the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his own designs,
Hammerborg was able to recruit designers such as Sophus Frandsen, Claus Bonderup and Torsten Thorup, Jørgen Bo, Erik Balslev, Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen, Sidse Werner, Hans Due and Peter Avondoglio.
The iconic Semi by Bonderup and Thorup is probably the best-known of the company's designs, along with Hammerborg's Saturn, Tunica, Classic and Diskos, Frandsen's Fibonacci, Werner's Formland, Balslev's Radius and Due's Optima.
In the mid-1970s, the company merged with the lighting firm Lyfa. Although the companies shared a factory, the two brands remained separate.
From classic-modern.co.uk and intl.lauritzblog.com
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